1900.1 Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 339 



JIah. Mozambique (Lourenvo-:Marquez), Ovanipoland (Okatchero), 

 Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Catharsius anderseni, Waterh., 

 Annals and Magaz. Natur. Hist., 1891, p. 510. 



Black, shining; head .similar in shape to that of ('. troglodytes, 

 but the clypeus is a little more deeply emarginate in the centre, the 

 whole surface is scabrose, and there is a slightly curved, incon- 

 spicuous frontal ridge, slightly tuberculate at middle in some 

 examples, while in others the tubercle alone is noticeable ; the 

 prothorax, instead of being finely and closely punctulate and only 

 slightly scabroso-punctate laterally, is very distinctly granular 

 laterally for one-third of the width, and deeply scabroso-punctate 

 in the middle except above the base where the punctures are 

 less scabrose; in the elytra the intervals are more convex, and 

 have only a few scattered punctures, the striae are much deeper, 

 and the apical spurs of the anterior tibiae are curved inwardly at 

 tip. 



Length 10^-11^ mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Ovampolaud (Omrramba), Damaraland. 



Catharsius latifrons, Har., 



Coleopt., Heft, iv., 1868, p. 81. 



Black, shining; head twice as broad as long, clypeus very shghtly 

 emarginate in the centre, and with the angles of the emargination 

 rounded, gems, in a hne with that of the clypeus laterally, the whole 

 surface of the head is covered with elongate granules coalescing 

 transversely in the median part but not on the gentc nor on the 

 marginal part of the clypeus, and there is a transverse, arcuate, very 

 little raised carina extending from one cheek to the other in both sexes, 

 and briefly tuberculate in the centre in the male ; prothorax convex, 

 simple, very closely scabrose except on the median posterior part of 

 the disk where there is a small punctate transverse area, and there is 

 also a median, very short, impressed shallow line in the posterior 

 part, the anterior angles are rounded, and the lateral fovea, although 

 small, is distinct ; elytra convex, not sub-gibbose at middle, finely 

 striate with the intervals faintly punctulate, intervals slightly convex, 

 finely and closely punctate, eighth stria carinate from the base to 



